Volume 57, Issue 3

M. Hori, H. A. Torii, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, F. E. Maas, H. Tamura, B. Ketzer, F. J. Hartmann, R. Pohl, C. Maierl, M. Hasinoff, T. von Egidy, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, I. Sugai, D. Horváth, E. Widmann, J. Eades, and T. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1698 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Muon transfer from excited states of hydrogen and deuterium to nitrogen, neon, and argon

Y.-A. Thalmann, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, F. Mulhauser, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, S. Tresch, and A. Werthmüller

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1713 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Benchmark calculations for lanthanide atoms: Calibration of ab initio and density-functional methods

Wenjian Liu and Michael Dolg

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1721 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Kohn-Sham potentials and exchange and correlation energy densities from one- and two-electron density matrices for ${Li}_{2},$ $N_{2},$ and $F_{2}$

P. R. T. Schipper, O. V. Gritsenko, and E. J. Baerends

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1729 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Electron affinities, magnetic dipole decay rates, and hyperfine structure for the excited states of ${5 p}^{3}$ ${Sn}^{-}$

Steven M. O’Malley and Donald R. Beck

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1743 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Hydrogen molecule in a magnetic field: The lowest states of the $Π$ manifold and the global ground state of the parallel configuration

T. Detmer, P. Schmelcher, and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1767 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Cross-section measurement for the energy pooling collisions: $Cd (5 p^{3} P_{1}) + Cd (5 p^{3} P_{1}) \to Cd (5 d^{3} D_{J}) + Cd (5 s^{1} S_{0})$

S. Barsotti, F. Fuso, A. F. Molisch, and M. Allegrini

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1778 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Polarization of Lyman-α radiation from atomic hydrogen excited by electron impact from near threshold to 1800 eV

G. K. James, J. A. Slevin, D. Dziczek, J. W. McConkey, and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1787 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Elastic collisions of low- to intermediate-energy electrons from carbon dioxide: Experimental and theoretical differential cross sections

H. Tanaka, T. Ishikawa, T. Masai, T. Sagara, L. Boesten, M. Takekawa, Y. Itikawa, and M. Kimura

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1798 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Measurements of the electron-impact differential cross sections and generalized oscillator strengths for excitation of the $2^{1} S$ and $3^{1} S$ states in helium at small scattering angles

T. Y. Suzuki, H. Suzuki, F. J. Currell, S. Ohtani, Y. Sakai, T. Takayanagi, and K. Wakiya

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1832 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Gaussian-type-orbital basis sets for the calculation of continuum properties in molecules: The differential photoionization cross section of molecular nitrogen

Ivo Cacelli, Roberto Moccia, and Antonio Rizzo

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1895 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Double photoionization of helium

J. A. R. Samson, W. C. Stolte, Z.-X. He, J. N. Cutler, Y. Lu, and R. J. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1906 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Near-threshold structures in inner-shell photoabsorption processes of ${CH}_{4},$ ${NH}_{3},$ $H_{2} O$ , and HF

An-Fu Niu, Yi Zhang, Wei-Hua Zhang, and Jia-Ming Li

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1912 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Ionization of excited hydrogen atoms interacting with a metal surface under the influence of an external electric field

P. Kürpick, U. Thumm, and U. Wille

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1920 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Interactions of Ar $^{9 +}$ and metastable Ar $^{8 +}$ with a Si(100) surface at velocities near the image acceleration limit

J. Ducrée, J. Mrogenda, E. Reckels, M. Rüther, A. Heinen, Ch. Vitt, M. Venier, J. Leuker, H. J. Andrä, and R. Díez Muiño

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1925 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Electron emission from strongly excited metal clusters

C. A. Ullrich, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud

Phys. Rev. A 57, 1938 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Matter waves

Atomic versus molecular diffraction: Influence of breakups and finite size

Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt and Thorsten Köhler

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2021 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Achieving steady-state Bose-Einstein condensation

J. Williams, R. Walser, C. Wieman, J. Cooper, and M. Holland

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2030 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Physical meaning of the photon wave function

Toshio Inagaki

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2204 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Quantum information

Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-state analyzer

Jian-wei Pan and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2208 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Relativistic correction of the generalized oscillator strength sum rules

Rodolfo H. Romero and Gustavo A. Aucar

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2212 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Resonance structure in the Li ${(4 s) + e}^{-} (ε p)$ partial photodetachment cross section

Gunnar Haeffler, Igor Yu. Kiyan, Dag Hanstorp, and David J. Pegg

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2216 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a hydrogen atom in a radiation field through electron self-interference

Maciej Kalinski

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2239 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Near-threshold photoionization by pulses with modulated frequency

A. Raczyński and J. Zaremba

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2243 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Cavity-QED state reduction method to produce atomic Schrödinger-cat states

Christopher C. Gerry and Rainer Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2247 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

COMMENTS

Validity of the Aharonov-Bergmann-Lebowitz rule

Lev Vaidman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2251 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

Reply to “Validity of the Aharonov Bergmann-Lebowitz rule”

Oliver Cohen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2254 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Finite-element calculations of the antiprotonic helium atom including relativistic and QED corrections [Phys. Rev. A 56, 1855 (1997)]

Nils Elander and Evgeny Yarevsky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 2256 (1998) - Published 1 March, 1998